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An explanation of figurative language, including metaphor, personification, and simile, and their use in literary works to convey mood, images, and meaning. It also covers sound devices such as alliteration, assonance, and rhyme. The document further discusses poetic styles like rhymed, free verse, and cinquain, and their significance in poetry.
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Identify and explain the use of figurative language in literary works to convey mood, images, and meaning including metaphor, personification, and simile.
Identify and explain the use of sound devices in literary works to convey mood, images, and meaning, including alliteration, onomatopoeia, and rhyme.
Analyze poetry and evaluate poetic styles (e.g. rhymed, free verse, and patterned cinquain, diamante)
While not all poems rhyme, some follow a certain rhyming scheme, adding to the rhythm of the poem. The last word of each line is what we look at when discussing a rhyming scheme.
Letters are used to denote the rhyming scheme. Each time the rhyme changes, another letter is introduced.
For example, if the following words were the ending of lines in a poem, the rhyming scheme would be ABAB.
...sat ...cap ....mat ....lap The One
The one who brought me down to earth, And held me everyday. The one who gracefully gave me birth, And said, I love you in every way.
Crimson Rose
A sign of beauty A symbol of grace Its pride runs strong At a very fast pace.
It's wild like a wolf It's gentle like the breeze And it has a burning honour It's not eager to please.
(^1) A couplet [CUP-let] is the simplest form of poetry. Do you see the word "couple" in
couplet? A couple is two of something. A couplet is a poem made of two lines of rhyming poetry that usually have the same meter. There are no rules about length or rhythm. Two words that rhyme can be called a couplet. Do you know what the pioneers ate when they got desperate?
Snake Steak
(^2) Seriously though, most poems will consist of more than two words. The rule to remember
is that each line in a couplet has an end rhyme. We can mark end rhymes alphabetically to keep track of the rhyming pattern.
Denotation The dictionary meaning of a word. Writers typically play off a word's denotative meaning against its connotations, or suggested and implied associational implications. In the following lines from Peter Meinke's "Advice to My Son" the references to flowers and fruit, bread and wine denote specific things, but also suggest something beyond the literal, dictionary meanings of the words: To be specific, between the peony and rose Plant squash and spinach, turnips and tomatoes; Beauty is nectar and nectar, in a desert, saves-- ... and always serve bread with your wine. But, son, always serve wine.
Definition of Lyric Poetry Lyric Poetry consists of a poem, such as a sonnet or an ode, that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet. The term lyric is now commonly referred to as the words to a song. Lyric poetry does not tell a story which portrays characters and actions. The lyric poet addresses the reader directly, portraying his or her own feeling, state of mind, and perceptions.
Dying (aka I heard a fly buzz when I died ) by Emily Dickinson I heard a fly buzz when I died; The stillness round my form Was like the stillness in the air Between the heaves of storm
A poem's tone is the attitude that its style implies. Brian Patten's 'A Blade of Grass' has a tone of sad acceptance toward the loss of childlike wonder that could have accepted the blade of grass, for example; 'The Happy Grass', by Brendan Kennelly, has instead a hopeful tone toward the prospect of peace that the grass represents, tempered by an awareness that there will be graves on which the grass will grow. Tone can shift through a poem: 'A Barred Owl', by Richard Wilbur, has a first stanza with a comforting, domestic tone, and a second that insists this kind of comfort plays a vicious world false. The shift in tone is part of what is enjoyable about the poem.
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/barred-owl
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Slant Rhyme
The basis of rap is rhyme, and an emcee is just a painter creating a picture with rhyming words, a poet with flow. It might sound obvious, but one of the best ways you can excel as an emcee is by picking better rhyming words. It’s all like Rakim says on “I Know You Got Soul”:
"I start to think and then I sink Into the paper like I was ink, When I’m writing I’m trapped in between the line, I escape when I finish the rhyme."
Reread that. That right there is the dopest, most beautiful summary of what it is to be a rapper. You go into your own mind and sink into the paper. You’re using words, but they trap you like bars in a jail cell unless you conquer them with rhyme.
